Here’s a very short screencast about vertical text editing feature in TextMate. I often have the case that I need to edit text in several lines at onces. I’m used to do that in the Unix editor VIM but TextMate has this feature as well. For as a keyboard/console junkie it wasn’t easy to figure out how to achieve it in TextMate. That’s why I made this little screencast to share my findings

I’ve create a Channel on Vimeo for our screencasts. This is for you to get easily access to all the mac centric screencasts from us.

I create most of the screencasts with ScreenFlow from Telestream. This is a commercial screencasting software for the MacOS X. It has almost all of the features I need and the workflow is pretty fast and snappy. It records the screencast in an intermediate format. After recording you can select the cropping, zooming and other features of the screen record. You can activate audible mouse klicks and additional text captions, videos, audio recordings etc.
Only drawback in the current release is the slow export. Screenflow doesn’t use all the available CPU power to encode the screencast and thus taking longer to export as needed. But this seems to be a bug and will be fixed in a future release.

You’ve already heard about the MacOS X Exposé functionality. This is where you can activate the display of either all open program windows, all windows of the active program or the desktop. You can even activate the screen saver or hibernate mode of the display. All these functions can be activated by function key or by moving the mouse pointer into a so called “active corner”.

During normal work you may enter the active corners accidently from time to time. This is a little annoying but the ingenious Apple engineers have already implemented a cure for this itch. You can add modifier keys to the active corners. To trigger the active corners function you now have to press the modifier key while moving the mouse pointer into the corner. No more accidently activation from now one. You have even assign different modifier keys to different corners. But you can’t overload an active corner with multiple modifier keys

How it works show this little screencast. Although the audio is in german you should get the idea how the modifier keys can be set in the system preferences.